The Inner Cup Of Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the Lord speaks not of distant punishment in the flesh, but of the inner law of your own consciousness. The 'cup' is the image of a consequence brewed by your state of awareness; to drink it is to taste the reality you have stirred within. When you believe you can escape judgment, you pretend separation from the conditions you have created, and you drink unwittingly from the same cup. But the I AM, the inner observer, cannot be fooled; it merely reflects your current assumption back to you. Therefore, the prophecy says, you shall drink of it, not as ruin, but as an invitation to wake to a new state. By refusing to enter the old story and instead imagining you have already passed through the trial in a completed, healed form, you convert the seeming sentence of punishment into the completion of the work within. You are both the drinker and the savior of your own life, and your only punishment is remaining identified with a self that requires continuation of the cup. Wake up, assume the feeling of the fulfilled state, and watch the outer scene align with your inner reality.